Carlos Castaneda "The Teachings of Don Juan" a Yaqui Indian, is the one in particular that I was thinking of concerning dreams and flying.
This was back in the late 60's early 70's, my "hippy" days at university. While we did our share of drinking, we played with many other substances as well.
Who is to say, that dreams are not as real, as the awake reality, and Don Juan taught how to control your dreams. And the ultimate, at least for me, once you knew you were dreaming, and took control, is/was to fly.
I see Carlos has written a few more books, and does seminars now, some for women, but I haven't followed him for 20+ years.
castaneda.com
castaneda.com
"Carlos Castaneda, under the tutelage of don Juan, takes us
through that moment of twilight, through that crack in the
universe between daylight and dark into a world not merely
other than our own, but of an entirely different order of reality.
Anthropology has taught us that the world is differently defined in different places.
Don Juan has shown us glimpses of the world of a Yaqui sorcerer and Castaneda
presents it in such a way that enables us to apprehend it with a reality that is
utterly different from our own. This is the special virtue of this work. Castaneda
asserts that this world has its own inner logic. He explains it from inside, as it were
- from within his own rich and intensely personal experiences while under don
Juan's tutelage - rather than to examine it in terms of our logic. Through this
experience, Castaneda leads us to understand that our own world is a cultural
construct and from the perception of other worlds, we see our own for what it is |
